From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ken Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: emacs-home variable for Windows Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:00:49 -0400 Message-ID: <4AD514B1.5080503@mousecar.com> Reply-To: gebser@mousecar.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1255478496 23779 80.91.229.12 (14 Oct 2009 00:01:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:01:36 +0000 (UTC) To: GNU Emacs List Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 14 02:01:26 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MxrIw-0007c2-21 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:01:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42448 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MxrIv-0004VD-77 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:01:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MxrIX-0004R5-9T for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:00:57 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MxrIV-0004Mr-IT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:00:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48706 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MxrIV-0004Mi-Fk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:00:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.perfora.net ([74.208.4.195]:49444) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MxrIV-0005cu-2b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:00:55 -0400 Original-Received: from dellap.mousecar.net (dsl093-011-017.cle1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.93.11.17]) by mrelay.perfora.net (node=mrus0) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0LZgYO-1MYjgE3sC4-00lqsJ; Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:00:52 -0400 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090625) X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 OpenPGP: id=5AD091E7 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/Pq/DCJavRy68RWGoAmqiW7OWJpIN1g87E6qC RX+uOkS7Yx0aMhQJDz5N5VfX0lDOk2SniDHWyMCW5mmkt93kzR JNFQTF2LW0zkZYMpa6Qj41ymJnKToLF X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:68934 Archived-At: I carry a USB stick to the job. It's got emacs installed on it and there's a link on my desktop that I click (after inserting the stick) and emacs fires up. It's nice. I use it every day. With the paucity of decent editors from Windows, I *need* it. There's a couple minor hassles though that I'd like to dispense with. One is that I don't know a way to tell emacs what the HOME directory is. In the past I've just gone into the registry and change some variable there. I don't remember where that is or how to do it though. Besides, I prefer to have the variable defined in my .emacs (which is at the top-level directory on the USB stick). (After emacs loads, I do "M-x loadfile RETURN e:/.emacs" and that little task loads up the rest of the stuff emacs needs to know. But I don't know how tell emacs to make e:/ the home directory. Anybody? tia. -- War is a failure of the imagination. --William Blake